# Personal Time Management for Busy Managers

> Markdown version of https://brajeshwar.com/2006/personal-time-management-for-busy-managers/ — 2006-02-04

Effective - having a definite or desired effect.
Efficient - productive with minimum waste or effort.
Effortless - seemingly without effort; natural, easy.

[Personal Time Management for Busy Managers](http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art2.html) looks at the basics of Personal Time Management and describes how one can assume control of this basic resource.

Personal Time Management is a set of tools which allow you to;

- eliminate wastage
- be prepared for meetings
- refuse excessive workloads
- monitor project progress
- allocate resource (time) appropriate to a task's importance
- ensure that long term projects are not neglected
- plan each day efficiently
- plan each week effectively

and to do so simply with a little self-discipline.